Dins said:the better question is: how do the big3 fail?
jayhawk said:Dins said:the better question is: how do the big3 fail?
Two reasons, 1 obvious, 1 not so.
1)The inability to foresee a threat to their companies; it happened in the 1970's.
2)The United Auto Workers, or UAW, who has the big 3 by the balls.
Un-Dee said:We have very powerful unions in Germany as well, with lots of influence in the politics and so on, and yet our industry doesn't go down the drain. I think its just a way the management tries to blame it on others instead of admitting they completely screwed up.
technically it didn'tfbc said:I'm suprised it took this long...
jayhawk said:Two reasons, 1 obvious, 1 not so.
1)The inability to foresee a threat to their companies; it happened in the 1970's.
2)The United Auto Workers, or UAW, who has the big 3 by the balls.
zenkidori said:technically it didn't
American consumers have bought more foreign cars for a while, but the big 3 have sold so many fleet vehicles they've been able to edge out the imports on paper.
martineb72 said:Of course we buy more foreign makes, than the 3 "domestic" makes. But we actually buy more foreign makes that are made and designed in america, than we do domestic make made in america.
Biggest sellers like camry, corrola, and accords are all made in the in US. So why bother buying a GM or Ford product when it is just as likely made out of the US.
So I say buy 'Merican, and get a Toyota or Honda.
Martin
jetsetter said:Un-Dee said:We have very powerful unions in Germany as well, with lots of influence in the politics and so on, and yet our industry doesn't go down the drain. I think its just a way the management tries to blame it on others instead of admitting they completely screwed up.
The British Unions asked for too much and didn't give anything up. That was the problem. The UAW actually did give things up in order to help the company over all.